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Tribunal Watch has indexed 39,515 UK employment tribunal cases involving unfair dismissal claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £6,352 (the largest £3,449,329) across 5,343 cases. Tribunals upheld 38% of the 15,214 decided unfair dismissal claims. These cases name 29,766 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 9,396 | 35% |
| Struck out | 6,533 | 25% |
| Upheld | 5,818 | 22% |
| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |
| Other | 1,026 | 4% |
| Settled | 106 | 0% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 529 | |
| 2018 | 910 | |
| 2019 | 5,942 | |
| 2020 | 8,014 | |
| 2021 | 5,248 | |
| 2022 | 4,871 | |
| 2023 | 4,455 | |
| 2024 | 4,023 | |
| 2025 | 3,577 | |
| 2026 | 1,946 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1404855/2018 | 5 June 2019 | In person For the | University of Southampton | £3,449,329 |
| 2302179/2017 | 17 June 2022 | Mr C Crow (Counsel) For the | — | £1,009,832 |
| 3304188/2022 | 28 July 2023 | Cyril Gregory | Petro Trace Limited | £340,213 |
| 1801339/2017 | 9 May 2018 | Miss S J Austin | Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | £269,114 |
| 1600183/2021 | 27 November 2020 | Ms Peak Ong | Aberystwyth University | £264,442 |
| 3320831/2021 | 30 November 2022 | Mr Joh Murphy | Remus Corporation UK Limited (in compulsory liquidation) | £234,410 |
| 3305627/2024 | 6 August 2025 | Mr Richard Cooke | Seven Resourcing Limited | £229,119 |
| 3303448/2019 | 25 March 2021 | Scott Neto | Key People Limited | £217,039 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Jurisdiction | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1401527/2022 | 1 September 2022 | Mr N England | Western Power Distribution (South West) plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3310103/2021 | 1 September 2022 | Mrs J Smith | Carisway Facilities Support Limited (in Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2501048/2023 | 1 September 2022 | Miss S Kirkby | Action 4 Care Ltd PUBLIC PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1303560/2022 | 1 September 2022 | Ms Sheryl Grout | Go Train Limited (named in the claim form as Go-Train Ltd) | England & Wales | — |
| 2402432/2021 | 1 September 2022 | Ms J Yegliss | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2409138/2021 | 1 September 2022 | Mr F Campos Cardellat | Creative Group Inc Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £2,788 |
| 1801323/2020 | 1 September 2022 | Miss M Kitcher | Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust | England & Wales |
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the unfair dismissal caseload if unfair dismissalis tagged in its classification output. A single judgment frequently combines multiple claim types, so the same case may appear on more than one claim-type page. Per-claim outcomes come from the second-pass (LLM-assisted) extraction and are recorded for each claim a judgment decides; the success rate counts only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed). Award figures are taken from the remedy section of each judgment where present; cases without a quantified award — because the tribunal only determined liability, or because the remedy hearing is pending — are excluded from the compensation figures. Regional splits follow the tribunal's jurisdiction as recorded on gov.uk. Nothing on this page is legal advice or a prediction of any outcome; for any specific matter the gov.uk judgment PDF linked from each case page is the authoritative source.
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| 16 | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 50 |
| 17 | British Airways plc | 47 |
| 18 | Limited (in Liquidation) | 47 |
| 19 | Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | 47 |
| 20 | British Telecommunications plc | 46 |
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| 2304932/2021 | 1 September 2022 | Mr S Colyer | Brighton & Hove Bus And Coach Company Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3213602/2020 | 31 August 2022 | Mr Rahmon Tesilimi-Layeni | Lidl Great Britain Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2207480/2020 | 31 August 2022 | Jane Lenny | National Federation of Roofing Contractors Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1801163/2022 | 31 August 2022 | Mr T Spencer | Cheap as Skips Limited Heard: In Leeds | England & Wales | £5,660 |
| 1404711/2021 | 31 August 2022 | Michelle Douglas-Jones | Fresh Acres Nurseries Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4103465/2022 | 31 August 2022 | Mr Steven MacNeil | Asda Stores Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1304932/2021 | 31 August 2022 | Mr Kieran Pagett | JCB Cabs System | England & Wales | — |
| 2305512/2021 | 31 August 2022 | Mr Nathan Hills | South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2307255/2020 | 31 August 2022 | Mr Greenlaugh, CAB representative | CPJ Field & Co Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2601673/2021 | 31 August 2022 | Mr RM Green Second Claimant: Ms A Palmer | Loughborough Schools Foundation | England & Wales | — |
| 1402384/2022 | 31 August 2022 | L M De Deus De Deus | Alan Waters | England & Wales | — |
| 1305214/2021 | 31 August 2022 | Miss R Matthews | Heron Foods Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2601040/2022 | 31 August 2022 | Mrs T Watson | Wilko Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3201532/2022 | 31 August 2022 | A Babalola | Barclays plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1304936/2021 | 31 August 2022 | Mrs S Woodcock | Herefordshire County Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1405951/2020 | 31 August 2022 | In Person | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1403837/2021 | 31 August 2022 | Mr D Basiak | Easy Access Construction Ltd (In voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1600205/2021 | 30 August 2022 | Mr J Seneschall | Trisant Foods Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4111971/2021 | 30 August 2022 | Mrs Gillian Quinn | Sense Scotland | Scotland | — |
| 1600761/2022 | 30 August 2022 | Mr A Deon Ferreira | Cattle & Co BBQ Smokehouse Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600472/2022 | 30 August 2022 | Mr J Podeszwa | RSR Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2400025/2022 | 30 August 2022 | Mr P Day | Skill and Works Solutions Limited t/a The Growth Company Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600987/2021 | 30 August 2022 | Krzysztof Dziura | R.F. Bellis Haulage Limited Heard: Via CVP | England & Wales | — |
| 2600073/2022 | 30 August 2022 | Mr Taiwo Adegbite | DPD Group UK Limited AT A PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3200034/2020 | 30 August 2022 | Mrs M Massengo | CPL Aromas Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2600857/2022 | 30 August 2022 | In person For the | No response filed and no appearance today | England & Wales | — |
| 1600948/2021 | 30 August 2022 | Miss R Storer | Cowbridge Professional Services | England & Wales | — |
| 1802493/2022 | 30 August 2022 | Mr C Okeke | First Bus Central Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600753/2022 | 30 August 2022 | Miss P Powell | Sodexo Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1405680/2020 | 30 August 2022 | - IN PERSON FOR THE | - No Appearance | England & Wales | £17,051 |
| 2204072/2022 | 30 August 2022 | Miss EV Ngo Nouck Hioba | Deloitte LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 1404765/2021 | 30 August 2022 | Emily Szmaglik | Midway Social Club Limited | England & Wales | £12,234 |
| 3310188/2021 | 30 August 2022 | Mr J Evening | LEBC Group Limited v | England & Wales | — |
| 2303229/2020 | 30 August 2022 | Mr B Knezevic, Solicitor For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4111660/2021 | 29 August 2022 | — | JJ and others | Scotland | — |
| 4105347/2020 | 29 August 2022 | E.T. Z (WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4105347/20205 Held at Aberdeen on & February & 20, & May and July 2022 Employment Judge J M Hendry Miss Y Pestano Tome | Assisted by Mr J McGregor, Ms A Uribe & Ms R Topping Interpreters MXCNHQ Ltd | Scotland | £3,645 |
| 3322700/2021 | 28 August 2022 | Joanna Phoenix | The Open University | England & Wales | — |
| 3313861/2021 | 28 August 2022 | Mr Robert Debont | Marsh Farm Future - 1st Mr David Eugene Crean - 2nd Mr Mohammed Rafi - 3rd Mr Barry Patel- 4th | England & Wales | — |
| 3323823/2021 | 28 August 2022 | Mrs A Issa | Extreme Networks | England & Wales | — |
| 3300201/2022 | 28 August 2022 | Mr J Weekes | Red Balloon Learning Centre | England & Wales | — |
| 1803300/2021 | 27 August 2022 | No attendance For the | Mr R McArdle (solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 1600217/2021 | 26 August 2022 | Mr Faisal Abdi | TC Facilities Management Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1803344/2022 | 26 August 2022 | Mr F Dargle | Bob Devine | England & Wales | — |